Job Market
Our PhD candidates on the 2026/27 job market.
Our PhD candidates work across a wide range of fields in economics. Below you can find each candidate’s main field of research and a link to their personal website.
Placement Officer: Matthias Doepke
Placement Team: Emma Taverner, Will McGeough, Paige Edwards
Contact: econ.facultysupport@lse.ac.uk
Luiza Aires
Fields: Development economics, environmental economics
Job market paper: to follow
Personal website: to follow
Marco Bellifemine
Field: Macroeconomics
Job market paper: Can't Lend or Won't Lend? Beliefs and the Macroeconomics of Financial Crises
Personal website : https://marcobellifemine.com/
Luzia Bruckamp
Fields: Political economy, demography, fertility
Job market paper: n/a
Personal website : https://luziabruckamp.com/
Chloé de Meulenaer
Fields: Public economics, political economy
Job market paper: What do reforms do? A unified analysis of support for economic policies
Personal website: https://chloedemeulenaer.github.io/
Sebastian Ernst
Field: Public economics
Job market paper: Caring What It Costs: Subsidy Design in Child Care
Personal website: http://seb-ernst.github.io/
Salomé Fofana
Field: Macroeconomics
Job market paper: Looking Ahead or Looking Away: How Uncertainty Polarizes Time Preferences and Savings
Personal website: http://salomefofana.com/
Antonio Iavarone
Fields: Macroeconomics
Job market paper: US-China Tech War
Personal website: to follow
Muskan Jain
Field: Labour economics, development economics
Job market paper: Gendered Use of Cities: Evidence from Jakarta
Personal website: https://jainmuskan.com/
Animesh Jayant
Fields: Development economics, environmental economics
Job market paper: Beyond Yields: How Climate Change Reaches Farmers Through Markets
Personal website: https://animesh-jayant.github.io/
Francisco Libano-Monteiro
Fields: Macroeconomics, labour economics
Job market paper: Does the Minimum Wage Reduce Inequality? Current vs Lifetime Perspectives
Personal website: https://franciscolibanomonteiro.github.io/
Negar Mohammadi-Jazi
Fields: Industrial organisation, finance
Job market paper: Asymmetric Information and Capital Regulation in SME Lending: A Structural Model of Bank and Non-Bank Competition
Personal website: https://negarmjazi.github.io/
Thomas Monk
Fields: Labour economics, economic history
Job market paper: Occupational Reinvention: Technology, Tasks and Jobs over Eight Decades
Personal website: https://tdmonk.com/
Mateus Morais
Field: Urban economics, trade economics
Job market paper: Do Local Markets Make Cities More Unequal? Evidence from Grocery Retail
Personal website: http://mateusmorais.com/
Marta Morando
Fields: Political economy, public economics
Job market paper: Make or Buy the State? Consulting in the Public Sector
Personal website: https://martamorando.com/
Charlie Nourse
Field: Macroeconomics
Job market paper: How Much Does Anticipation Matter for MPCs? Evidence from Seasonal Bonuses and Lottery Wins
Personal website: https://charlienourse.github.io/
Paula Patzelt
Fields: Macroeconomics, environmental economics
Job market paper: Connecting Electricity Markets: Production Reallocation and Aggregate Productivity
Personal website: https://www.paulapatzelt.com/
Carlos Pérez-Cavero
Fields: Environmental economics, development economics, labour economics
Job market paper: Digging abroad: Environmental Regulation, Production Relocation and Externalities in the Mining Sector
Personal website: https://carlosperezcavero.com/
Gailius Praninskas
Fields: Political economy, economic history
Job market paper: Did Enfranchisement Lead to Representation?
Personal website: https://gailius.praninskas.com/
Beatriz Ribeiro
Field: Labour economics
Job market paper: Reclaiming Neighborhoods: Violent Crime and Business Growth
Personal website: https://beatrizmribeiro.com/
Emiliano Rinaldi
Fields: Environmental economics, urban economics
Job market paper: Dynamic Costs of Resource Shocks: Evidence from Cape Town’s Water Crisis
Personal website: https://emilianorinaldi.com/
Yasaman Saeidi
Fields: Labour economics, economics of crime
Job market paper: Transport and Local Crime Dynamics
Personal website: https://yasamansaeidi.com/
Pol Simpson
Field: Environmental economics
Job market paper: The Economic Incidence of Natural Disasters
Personal website: https://polsimpson.github.io/
Ameek Singh
Field: Development economics
Job market paper: Learning-by-Doing at Home: The Childhood Origins of Girls' Domestic Work
Personal website: https://www.ameeksingh.com/
Lachi Singh
Fields: Development economics, labour economics
Job market paper: The Spatial Cost of Formality: Street Vendors’ Preferences in India
Personal website: https://www.lachisingh.com/
Hamza Syed
Fields: Development economics, political economy
Job market paper: Discrimination, Preferences, and Residential Sorting: Evidence from Delhi's Rental Housing Market
Personal website: https://www.hamza-syed.com/
Abhijit Tagade
Fields: Innovation, fields, networks
Job market paper: Creation, destruction and social value of innovations
Personal website: https://atagade.com
Kazunari Tanabe
Fields: Macroeconomics
Job market paper: Not Worth Innovating For? Dynamic Lock-In of Agricultural Productivity Differences
Personal website: https://kazunaritanabe.github.io/
Jack Thiemel
Fields: Environmental economics, development economics
Job market paper: Salting the Earth: Shrimp Farming and Agricultural Externalities in Bangladesh
Personal website: https://jackthiemel.com/
Evie Thompson
Fields: Labour economics, family economics
Job market paper: Money, Time, and the Demand for Children
Personal website: https://eviethompson.co.uk/
Xavier Tierney
Fields: Urban economics, development economics
Job market paper: Lopsided Cities: Employment-Residence Mismatches and Place-Based Responses
Personal website: https://xavier-tierney.github.io/
Enrico Turri
Field: Macroeconomics
Job market paper: Growing Old: New Product Adoption and the Growth Slowdown
Personal website: https://edturri.github.io/
Zixin Wang
Fields: Political economy, economic history
Job Market Paper: The Unintended Consequences of Removing Trade Distortions: Social Conflict in Qing China
Personal website: https://zixin-wang.com/
Yoshiki Wiskamp
Fields: Environmental economics, development economics
Job market paper: Channeling Density: Sewers in 19th-Century Paris
Personal website: https://yoshikiwiskamp.com/
Weijie Zhang
Fields: Macroeconomics, behavioural economics
Job market paper: Unkink MPCs
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/weijie-zhang